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Irish actor Jack Hudson is set to star in a feature adaptation of Matthew Dickens’s comic The Devil’s Train about a Hollywood stuntman leading a double life as a time-travelling cowboy cyborg.

The feature will be directed by stuntman and Fast & Furious action director Jack Gill with MCU stunt veteran Chris Brewster, whose recent credits include Captain America: Brave New World.

The Devil’s Train is adapted from an original story by Dickens based on his unpublished novel, which he turned into a comic book series released by L.A. based publisher Bliss On Tap.

Hudson will play a time-traveling, demon-possessed cyborg, called Blondie in a nod to one of the nicknames of Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name character in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy.

The movie revolves around Blondie’s mission to rob the treasure-laden Devil’s Train as it passes through Death Valley.

Two years before Al Gore’s Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth elevated the conversation around global warming, Roland Emmerich unleashed The Day After Tomorrow, the 2004 blockbuster that brought the dangers of climate change to the popcorn crowd.

Emmerich was already known as the master of disaster, blowing up the White House in Independence Day (1996) and leveling part of New York in Godzilla (1998). While directing 2000’s The Patriot in hurricane-stricken North Carolina, the German filmmaker became intrigued with extreme weather. At his hotel’s bookstore, he stumbled upon the 1999 novel The Coming of the Global Superstorm, co-written by the conspiracy-enthused radio icon Art Bell and author Whitley Strieber.

The novel inspired Emmerich to dig into the idea that climate change could spark a new ice age over a period of days — not years or centuries. He enlisted Patriot producer Mark Gordon, who paired him with screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff for a package that...

In the early 1990s, filmmaker Sydney Lumet put an idea in stuntman Jack Gill’s head: stunt people ought to have an Oscars category.

Gill met with the then-Academy leadership as the opening salvo in what would become a decades long odyssey. “They said, ‘Ok great. It will probably take three to five years. Are you ready to put that much effort into it?’” recalls Gill. Heck, yeah, he was. “Now here we are, 34 years later.”

Today, Gill and the stunt community are celebrating Thursday’s news that, finally, stunts will be recognized in 2028 with a stunt design Oscar.

Gill, as well as countless others, pushed the boulder up the hill, but the effort was supercharged in recent years thanks to stuntpeople such as The Fall Guy filmmaker David Leitch gaining more clout in Hollywood as he became an A-list director. Leitch and his Fall Guy stunt designer Chris O’Hara...

After three decades, the stunt community is finally getting its due, after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the creation of a new competitive category for achievement in stunt design.

“It validated the whole stunt community,” stunt designer Chris O’Hara told Variety.

Stunt coordinator Jack Gill has been campaigning for an Oscar for stunts as far back as 1991, and as stunts became more elaborate and pushed groundbreaking boundaries on screen, conversations grew and talks continued around the stunt Oscar being overdue. Most recently, David Leitch, a former stunt coordinator turned director, along with his producing partner and wife, Kelly McCormick and O’Hara, were among those leading key presentations with the Academy. Just last year, O’Hara, also vice president of Stunts Unlimited, landed the first-ever credit of “stunt designer” in “The Fall Guy,” after earning approval from the Screen Actors Guild and Directors Guild of America.

Fast X, the latest entry in the Fast & Furious series, has many connections to Fast Five. Most notably, the beginning of Fast X reframes the ending of Fast Five to include villain Dante Reyes, the son of Hernan Reyes, who was the main antagonist in the fifth Fast & Furious movie. This was necessary, since Dante returned in the latest film to get revenge on Dom and his crew. However, Fast X also tried to copy the most memorable action scene from Fast Five.

Fast X includes a scene in which Dante unleashes an enormous bomb ball on the city of Rome, which must be contained by Dom and the rest of the Fast & Furious characters. This scene was reminiscent of Fast Five's vault heist scene. However, the vault heist scene is much more effective and memorable.

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In James Wan's "Furious 7," released in 2015, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) find themselves inside a supercar located many stories up in an Abu Dhabi skyscraper. They desperately need a chip that's embedded in the vehicle (don't ask), but things go south when the villains realize their plan. In order to escape, Dom does the only thing he knows how to do: he drives his way out of the situation, despite being indoors. After knocking over several of the baddies and evading many a gunshot, Dom realizes the only way the team can accomplish their mission is if he and Brian speed through the window and crash into a neighboring skyscraper. 

The scene is, of course, absolutely ridiculous, but Wan and his team give it a sense of majesty and wonder, and the result is one of the best stunts in "Fast and Furious" franchise history.

So…Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s movie didn’t turn out exactly how the people expected. It wasn’t a complete box office failure but neither it was also a very successful film compared to the promotion that they had been doing.

Although the film didn’t manage to do extremely well at the box office, the film is already revolutionizing Hollywood while you are reading this article! With stunts, recognition, and, fame, the world hopes that the Oscars will soon have a category specially for stunts and stuntmen and women. As it happens so, Ryan Gosling’s The Fall Guy was just the spark that was needed!

Ryan Gosling performs a stunt in The Fall Guy

The Stunt Team Deserves Their Own Oscars!

Since the Oscars started, there have been almost no categories that awarded an Oscar for “Best Stunt in a Film” or “Best Stuntman/woman”. Gosling...

While Keanu Reeves' John Wick faces off against the High Table this weekend, franchise filmmaker and veteran stunt performer Chad Stahelski is facing off against an awards system that still doesn't recognize stunt work nearly a century into its existence. In an interview with Deadline, Stahelski was asked to "make the case" for the Oscars to "reconsider" adding a stunts category, a question that garnered an appropriately strong response from the filmmaker.

"What makes you think they've ever really considered it?" Stahelski responded, referencing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "Have you ever talked to anyone in the Academy about it, or talked to anyone in the stunt world who has talked to the Academy about this?" The director and stunt performer then shared what he sees as "the fundamental problem" in the conversation about awarding stunts in the same way the Oscars award sound, editing, costuming, and...

The cohort includes Screen Star of Tomorrow 2019 Benjamin Bee

The British Film Institute (BFI) Network has unveiled 15 filmmakers who will participate in London Film Festival’s professional development programme Network@Lff.

Taking place October 7-10, the programme will consist of masterclasses and networking events with established filmmakers from around the world who are presenting work at this year’s festival.

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The 2022 cohort, who were selected out of 596 participants, includes Screen Star of Tomorrow 2019 Benjamin Bee. The filmmaker, who identifies as neurodivergent and disabled, is currently working on his debut feature Marwell which was selected for Biennale College Cinema,...

David White, SAG-AFTRA’s national executive director, met Tuesday night with some 80 stunt performers to hear their concerns about safety, pensions and contract issues. Stuntwoman Jane Austin, who’s the union’s national secretary-treasurer and president of its Los Angeles local, also attended the meeting, which was held at the offices of Stunts Unlimited in Chatsworth, CA.

Safety is the chief concern of all stunt professionals – an issue that was highlighted when two stunt performers were killed on the job last year: Joi Harris on Deadpool 2 in Vancouver and John Bernecker on The Walking Dead in Atlanta.

One of the safety issues on last night’s agenda was a proposal that SAG-AFTRA should demand in the next round of contract talks that ambulances be required on set when major stunts are performed, and that emergency medical technicians should be required on set for all stunts, according to...

Dame Helen Mirren wishes the “craftsmen” of the stunt world could join her in the Academy Award winner’s circle. “There really should be an Oscar for stunt work,” she told the UK site Female First. “These guys are incredible and they’re so careful and so professional. And they’re artists. They do amazing things.”

This decade, Mirren has shaken up her 50-year career with roles in a pair of action films — “Red” and “The Fate of the Furious” — an opportunity she credits to winning her own gold statuette for “The Queen” in 2007. She’d had the desire to kick literal onscreen ass for quite some time: “I put it out there and then I begged. That was one of the wonderful advantages of winning an Oscar. I got to be in action movies!” Her tentpole collaborators Robert Schwentke and F. Gary Gray “love having Oscar winners in their action movies,...

When you compare the relatively grounded and taut nature of The Fast and the Furious – Point Break with cars, as one comparison so aptly put – with the recently-released sequel The Fate of the Furious, you’ll begin to get a sense of just how far Universal’s franchise has come, both in terms of death-defying stunts and box office success.

The actioner formerly known as Fast 8 has been crowned king of the international box office, and with a worldwide haul of $900 million and climbing, it’ll be some time yet before F. Gary Gray’s over-the-top sequel begins to run out of gas. It’s no wonder the Powers That Be are already beginning to make headway on a spinoff movie, one that’ll seemingly be headlined by The Rock and The Stath – that’s Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, of course. Will said offshoot find room in its ranks for the menacing Cipher?...

Last Friday, a new video surfaced from the Fast and Furious 8 set in Cleveland, which teased an epic and fiery stunt where a number of cars were dropped out of a parking garage. That video was taken from a building across the street from the action, although we don't know how this scene fits into the story. In keeping with their new #FastFridays tradition, Universal has released a new behind-the-scenes video that sheds light on this epic scene.

While it was originally believed that this was a second unit scene, this video from YouTube shows that director F. Gary Gray was on hand to oversee the action. This Fast Fridays video also features second unit stunt coordinator Andy Gill, who reveals that the production has been calling this the "zombie car" sequence. Special effects supervisor J.D. Schwalm also reveals that each one of these seven cars is actually aiming for...

I.m sure we all have our issues with the Academy, whether it.s how seemingly deserving films and directors get snubbed or how motion capture isn.t a recognized Oscar category. But Jack Gill has been fighting for years to get his fellow stuntmen the recognition they deserve from the Academy, and now he has more backing from high-profile celebrities than ever before.  According to The L.A. Times, Gill speaks with and writes letters to the heads of the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences every year in the hope that they will eventually recognize stunt work as a worthy category for the Oscars. Gill is a 40-year veteran of this sub-genre of moviemaking, and he.s worked on films and TV shows like The Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider and Furious 7. Remember that scene when cars were dropped from a C-130 transport plane at 12,000 feet?...

The trailers for Fast & Furious 7 have shown just some of the incredible stunts to look forward to with Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and co.

A new video has explained how the production team managed to film the impressive shot of several cars being dropped out of a plane.

Stunt co-ordinators Andy and Jack Gill revealed that several aerial camera flyers were used to track the shots, and that the cars were strapped with strong parachutes.

Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez and Kurt Russell will also star in the upcoming seventh instalment of the action series.

It marks the final film for the late Paul Walker, who was killed in a car crash as production was coming to a close.

Jordana Brewster and Elsa Pataky are also back for the sequel.

A new Universal Pictures teaser was revealed earlier this week.

Fast & Furious 7 opens on April 3 in the UK and in the Us,...

Last week, Universal Pictures debuted an extended first look from Furious 7. The three-minute scene shows off the beginning moments of this sequel's biggest action set piece, which has Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian (Paul Walker) dropping from the back of a C-130 plane in their cars, along with the rest of their crew, before they parachute into the mountains. Universal has now released a featurette that goes behind-the-scenes of this jaw-dropping moment.

Continuing the global exploits in the unstoppable franchise built on speed, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of Furious 7. This chapter of the hugely successful series also welcomes back favorites Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Elsa Pataky and Lucas Black. They are joined by international action stars new to the franchise including Jason Statham, Djimon Hounsou, Tony Jaa, Ronda Rousey and Kurt Russell.

Watch as stunt director Andy Gill...

Big explosion and plenty of shoot'em up descended upon Harbor City yet again and its up to the cops to restore the peace in Tsai Yueh-hsun's Black & White Episode II: The Dawn of Justice, the second installment of the big-budget Taiwanese action franchise. Mark Chao and Huang Bo returns to reprise their previous role as the unlikely duo while Lin Gengxin joins the main cast. As with most sequels, the action set-pieces and production value has ratchet up a notch with an international crew that includes France-based visual effects studio Buf (The Grandmaster), production designer Yoshi Akasuka (The Flowers of War) and second unit action direction by Jack Gill (Fast Five), Ron Yuan (Fast & Furious) and Lan Hai-Han (Ip Man 2)Police officer in...

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Taipei-based sales company Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Tsai Yueh-hsun’s Black & White: The Dawn Of Justice.

Co-produced by Prajna Works Entertainment, Beijing Hualu Baina Film & TV and Gravity Pictures, the $13m film is the sequel to 2012 action hit Black & White: The Dawn Of Assault, which was based on Tsai’s popular TV drama series Black & White.

Mark Chao and Huang Bo resume their roles in the sequel alongside new addition Ling Gengxin. French visual effects company Buf (The Grandmaster) worked on the film, while Jack Gill, stunt coordinator on Fast & Furious 5, choreographed action sequences.

The film is currently in post-production for an autumn release. Ablaze Image will screen a first promo at the upcoming Filmart in Hong Kong.

Ablaze Image is also selling Yee Chih-yen’s long-awaited Meeting Dr. Sun, which is also in post-production and scheduled for a summer release.

Taipei-based sales company Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Tsai Yueh-hsun’s Black & White: The Dawn Of Justice.

Co-produced by Prajna Works Entertainment, Beijing Hualu Baina Film & TV and Gravity Pictures, the $13m film is the sequel to 2012 action hit Black & White: The Dawn Of Assault, which was based on Tsai’s popular TV drama series Black & White.

Mark Chao and Huang Bo resume their roles in the sequel alongside new addition Ling Gengxin. French visual effects company Buf (The Grandmaster) worked on the film, while Jack Gill, stunt coordinator on Fast & Furious 5, choreographed action sequences.

The film is currently in post-production for an autumn release. Ablaze Image will screen a first promo at the upcoming Filmart in Hong Kong.

Ablaze Image is also selling Yee Chih-yen’s long-awaited Meeting Dr. Sun, which is also in post-production and scheduled for a summer release.

As we all know, Jason Statham is no stranger to action movies, and knows first hand how important stunt actors are to this genre. They bring the action sequences that sometimes make our jaws hit the floor to life, and in the eyes of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences they go unnoticed, something which Statham feels unfair. Speaking in an interview with Vanity Fair, he called for the Academy to craft an award to finally give those who make their name in the stunt world recognition, saying, "All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credibility. They are risking their necks. And then you've got poncy actors pretending like they're doing (the stunts)." Considering the genre he mostly works,  and the fact he performs most of his own stunts, he certainly knows what he is talking about.

Ken Jeong has experienced a quite the rise to fame over the last couple of years. After catching his first big break in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, the doctor turned actor went on to make films like Role Models, Pineapple Express, Step Brothers and more. Then, in 2009, director Todd Phillips cast Jeong as Mr. Chow in The Hangover and the rest is, as they say, history.

This week The Hangover Part III heads into theatres and Jeong once again reprises his role as the series’ villain. Though his part was more of a supporting one in the first two outings, this time he has a much larger role as the entire story basically revolves around him. He has a ton of screen time and is funnier than ever.

Recently, Ken Jeong was in Toronto to promote the film and we had the chance to catch up with him for a bit.

Have you watched the Fast 6 Super Bowl trailer a couple dozen times? Do you feel like you’ve sufficiently dissected that car-flip-tastic minute of cinema? Well, fellow films fans: Prepare yourself. Get yourself a body bag, strap yourself in, and check out the full three-and-a-half minute trailer which just hit the internet in the face. Here’s a quick tease of what you’ll see: More cars. Gina Carano getting into a totally badass punch-and-kick-you-down-the-stairs fight with Michelle Rodriguez. The dude from The Raid doing a flying kick into Tyrese. Things collapsing. Everything Collapsing. Vin Diesel saying “Ride or die...

After two years of terrible waiting, Americans can rest easy: There is finally a new Fast & Furious movie. It’s called Fast & Furious 6, but we’re all just going to call it Fast Six, although a more accurate title based on the Super Bowl trailer would be Tank Fast Plane Furious: Resurrection. (Update: Check out our deep dive into the Fast & Furious 6 trailer here.) In a clear homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief, Vin Diesel and his glistening biceps are brought out of retirement by The Rock and his glistening biceps, because The Rock needs to track...

Dreamworks Animation chief heads quartet of winners including Hal Needham, Da Pennebaker and George Stevens Jr

Dreamworks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg is to be awarded an honorary Oscar for his humanitarian work, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced.

Katzenberg, the former Disney chairman who co-founded studio Dreamworks in 1994 with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, is one of four men who will receive honorary Oscars at the Governors awards ceremony in November. The executive, who previously had one Oscar nomination for his producing work on Dreamworks' Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, is being rewarded with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award for his philanthropic work.

Stuntman Hal Needham, documentary film-maker Da Pennebaker and American Film Institute founding director George Stevens Jr are the other honorary Oscar winners. The selection of Needham, who has more than 300 feature films on his CV, may offer some solace to campaigners who believe...

Guest Author Ed Travis served as Editor In Chief of the ActionFest 2012 blog. Part of the mission of ActionFest is to pay tribute to the unsung heroes of action cinema, the stunt men and women. Jack Gill is one of the most important names in action cinema stunt work. Without the daring work of the stunt coordinators who make action scenes pop, the entire Hollywood machine would break down. This is a fact which I had no trouble believing personally, but came face to face with in my work at ActionFest this past year. ActionFest founders Bill Banowsky, Tom Quinn (Radius TWC) and Aaron Norris use the festival both as an showcase for films and as a platform to connect fans to the real makers of action, the stunt community. It was through ActionFest that I came in contact with Jack Gill, a legendary stuntman and the primary activist who is fighting for the creation of an...

Though the 2012 edition of ActionFest has come and gone it's not too late to get a little taste of the action. Outside of the films screened ActionFest always makes a great point of honoring the professionals that make action cinema possible - both the stars and the stunt professionals. Honored this year were Mma fighters turned screen stars Gina Carano and Cung Le along with stunt vets Jack Gill, Jj Perry and Mickey Gilbert.Video presentations for all were created for the festival and you can take a look at all of them below....

If franchises were baseball teams, then The Fast and the Furious would be the Oakland Athletics. As recounted in last year’s Moneyball, the A’s could never afford to pay superstar salaries. So, using a system known as sabermetrics, they put together a ragtag band of players: aging players who could make base hits, rookies who could read pitches, journeyman has-beens with the uncanny ability to just keep getting on base. None of these dudes was a star. But together, they made a franchise.

I submit to you that last year’s Fast Five is a model for Hollywood sabermetrics.

In the wake of ActionFest 2012 and with today marking the home video release of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, it's as good as any time to talk about stunts. Plus, master stunt coordinator Jack Gill is apparently meeting this week with Dawn Hudson, the new head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, about adding a Best Stuntman category to the Oscars. That's a suggestion made yearly by movie fans and bloggers already, and Gill says that Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese have also literally signed off on the idea. I only wonder if Tom Cruise would get an inaugural nomination, both because he's a star and he performed his character's building climbing stunt in Ghost Protocol himself.  I think part of the difficulty of recognizing stuntmen...

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Actionfest, the all-action movie film festival in Asheville, Nc, celebrates the movie stuntmen who make movies so awesome. This year Mickey Gilbert and Jack Gill were special honorees for Lifetime Achievement (Gilbert) and Man of Action (Gill) Awards. As they spoke to fans in a panel on Trailblazing Stuntmen, and Gilbert spoke after a screening of the classic The Wild Bunch, Gilbert and Gill revealed the close calls that stuntmen survived making films like Fast Five, Showtime and TV shows like Knight Rider and The Dukes of Hazzard. 1. The Vault driver from Fast Five – When Vin Diesel and Paul Walker pull a bank vault behind their cars, there’s actually a driver steering the vault from inside. “We found out that with the engine running and with...

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Asheville, N.C. -- If Jack Gill has his way, this will be the year that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finally acknowledges stunt work at the Oscars. Gill, a master stunt coordinator whose credits range from Dukes of Hazzard to Fast Five, has spent the past 21 years trying to get the Academy to salute the risky work of the men and women who make the Arnold Schwarzeneggers and Jeremy Renners look so dangerous. And he will have his chance again in three weeks when he meets with Dawn Hudson, the new Academy leader, to formally petition

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Every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars. The Searchers, Groundhog Day, Persona, Breathless, Hoop Dreams, King Kong, Caddyshack — the Academy has a long history of overlooking comedies, action movies, horror flicks, artsy foreign films, and documentaries that aren’t about World War II. This year, we’ll be taking a closer look at films that were too small, too weird, or perhaps simply too awesome for the Academy Awards. These are the Non-Nominees.

The Film: Fast Five, the fifth film in the unexpectedly long-lived Fast & Furious franchise, starring basically every actor who has ever been in a Fast film.

How did The Fast and the Furious become one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood? The original film was a campy mash-up of West Side Story and Point Break, filled with hack-and-slash car chases that overdosed on digital effects. The Diesel-free sequel was actually named 2 Fast 2 Furious and basically played out like a very special episode of Fastlane, which is a TV show you’ve hopefully never heard of. The third film — immortally subtitled Tokyo Drift — should have put the nail in the coffin, but new director Justin Lin turned out to be the rare commercial filmmaker in modern Hollywood...

As 2011 comes to a close, EW.com wanted to honor some of the hardworking names and faces from behind the scenes for their outstanding achievements. Stunt Coordinator Jack Gill is a veteran of the stunt trade. (One of his earliest gigs was stunt driving on The Dukes of Hazzard.) His skills were pushed to the limit for the climactic sequence in Fast Five, in which our heroes attach a pair of Dodge Chargers to a massive bank vault and drive said bank vault all around Rio De Janeiro while being chased by every police car on the continent. Learn all...

Jack Gill is at a loss. "I just am baffled that the discrimination goes on like it does," said the stunt coordinator, who for more than 20 years has been lobbying the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create a new award category for stunts. "For some reason we're different than every other category that's in there."On June 14, the academy denied Gill's proposal. In a written statement, the academy said: "Stunt coordinators play an important role in many movie productions and the Academy currently honors those at the very top of their craft by inviting them to become Academy members. While the Board recognizes that stunt coordinators make unique contributions to filmmaking, it voted against instituting a new annual category."Among the reasons the academy gave Gill for not creating a new Oscar category were the length of the broadcast and the fact that many other industry professionals.

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On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences denied stunt coordinators the right to an Oscar category in recognition of their work. According to The Hollywood Reporter, stunt coordinator Jack Gill, who has been leading the 20-year effort to get coordinators recognized by the Academy, said, "I will try again next year and gather more and more support."

Stunt coordinators are hired to design stunts like car chases and fight scenes, which are then performed by the stunt performers. Yet despite their importance to the film industry, only one stunt performer in history got an Academy Award, and it was more honorary than anything else. )(Yakima Canutt was given the Oscar for helping develop safety devices to protect stuntmen.)

Hit the jump to see the Academy's statement on the controversial move:

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Hollywoodnews.com: The Academy was in the mood for change earlier this week, announcing tweaks to the Best Picture race and altering Animated and Effects categories. But the organization wasn’t in the mood to accept every change put before it, much to the stuntman’s chagrin.

In fact, the Academy flat out “declined” to launch a special category that recognized the work of stunt coordinators on major motion pictures, THR reports. Stunt coordinator Jack Gill told the trade that while the Academy “appreciates” the work of these coordinators, a new category will not be added, even if it isn’t part of the annual telecast.

But Gill’s not giving up the fight.

“I will try again next year and gather more and more support,” Gill said, acknowledging the appreciation of big-screen heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger who have supported his cause.

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Earlier this year, Vin Diesel boldly told the Los Angeles Times that he "wouldn't be surprised" if Fast Five garnered "Oscar talk" this award season. While the fifth Fast and Furious film won't be winning any statuettes for its acting this lifetime (sorry, Vin, The Rock and Ludacris), it might have a legitimate shot at an Academy Award if the movie's stunt coordinator Jack Gill convinces the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to add a Best Stunt category.

Should there be an Oscar for Best Stunt? A group of stunt coordinators plan to lobby the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors tonight for their own category at the annual awards. Veteran stunt coordinator Jack Gill (Fast Five) has been petitioning AMPAS for two decades now, to no avail. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the stunt coordinators are proposing that their award be handed out before the main telecast, though they want a clip of the presentation to be shown during the broadcast.

So would the addition of a Best Stunt award make you more likely to watch the Oscars?...

The beauty of a movie like Fast Five is its total disregard for reality in exchange for enhanced entertainment. From the opening scene to the climactic car chase, the stunts are over-the-top and death-defying, yet we allow it because the movie never asks us to justify it. Still, plenty of critical viewers hunt for logistics in even the most absurd moments.

To that end we spoke with stunt coordinator Jack Gill about some of Fast Five‘s most intense action sequences.

Gill was not a part of the previous four movies in the franchise, so he had no input in the now-infamous bus flip. If you are looking for answers behind the amazing stunt, you won’t find them here. However, according to Gill, the legitimacy and ...

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February 17, 2010: Zee TV’s ‘Dance India Dance’ has finally got its 12 finalist who will henceforth battle out for ‘Sunehri Takdir Ki Topi’. The last episode telecasted the wild card entry and saw 8 contestants selected for a second shot. Now 4 winners who will be chosen amongst the wild card contestants will get a green card to join the 12 finalist.

Our source form the sets informs, “Dharmesh Yelande and Amrita from Geeta Ki Gang who gave a splendid performance last week are back into the competition, followed by Jack Gill from Terrenac Ki Toli and Saajan from Remo Ke Rangelee..

Today USA Network made its 2010 development slate of original branded content available. Some of the creative minds behind the shows are Stephen J. Cannell, Mike Newell, Tom Fontana and Steve Stark. Announcing the slate was president of USA original programming & co-head, original content, Universal Cable Productions, Jeff Wachtel.

Here is a list of USA Network's upcoming shows:

Facing Kate

A new spin on a legal franchise featuring a mediator from a family of corporate lawyers. From Universal Cable Productions. Executive producer and writer is Michael Sardo (Caroline in the City). Steve Stark (Mediu) is executive producer.

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Sibling rivalry is taken to new heights when an estranged brother and sister are paired up as cops in their small hometown. From Universal Cable Productions. Writer is John Quaintance (Joey).

Busy Bodies

A soccer mom teams up with a gay stay-at-home dad to solve mysteries in the suburbs.

Ajay Devgan and Kajol shot some really stunning action scenes recently in Mehboob Syudios for their forthcoming film, Toonpur Ka Superhero sometime back. Hollywood action director Jack Gill, whose work repertoire includes big action successes like the Spiderman and Superman series, The Rock and Terminator-2 was at the helm of the affairs.

It is learnt that while Kajol was a little apprehensive of doing the difficult action scenes, Jack managed to convince her to go ahead without fear.

“Kajol is quiet a lot like my wife in the sense that she does not want to do action. She likes love.

Ajay Devgan and Kajol shot some really stunning action scenes recently in Mehboob Studios for their forthcoming film, Toonpur Ka Superhero. Hollywood action director Jack Gill, whose work repertoire includes big action successes like The Spiderman and Superman series, The Rock and Terminator-2 was at the helm of the affairs. It is learnt that while Kajol was a little apprehensive of doing the difficult action scenes, Jack managed to convince her to go ahead without fear....

Hollywood's stunt community has been left fuming after Academy Awards bosses decided not to introduce an Oscar category to recognize their work. Following a protest outside the Academy Awards headquarters in Los Angeles earlier this week, Oscar organizers were forced to consider a category honoring stunt work but made their unpopular decision to keep the annual ceremony's running time down. Academy president Frank Pierson explains, "At a time when the Academy is trying to find ways to reduce the numbers of statuettes given out, the board is simply not prepared to institute any new annual awards categories." But stuntman Jack Gill, 50, who has worked on big-budget films such as Pearl Harbor and The Day After Tomorrow, fumes, "Stunt co-ordinators are an integral part of the filmmaking business yet we are totally overlooked by the Academy. It seems like every picture that is promoted has an action piece to lure audiences in there and the stunt people are central to those scenes. Even the Academy shows action scenes at the Oscars, yet they keep us out of it, despite the fact that we play a major role before, during and after production."...